THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1894

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8089, 20 November 1894, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1894

That '• unspeakable Turk " again ! The news we publish ihia inornkg regarding the state of ;ff.tirs in Armenia is revolt, ing la the highest degree. It is an outrage on the ordinary feellng3 of humanity and a terrible reproach to the Government responsible f r buc'i fiendish atrocities. It is an unpleasant task io dwell upon such ghaotly details, nor would it serve any go id purpose to uo so. It would only still further itiflamo the feeUnga of all who shudder at the mere recital or suggestion of such twful scenes. A few weeks ago we had occasion to give publicity io some of ths mons'rous acts of ihe Turkish Irregalar>, bitter known as Bishl-Bf-zouk3. Taking that ia conjunction with the news we j publish to-day, it is q'.'ita evident that the condition of affiira in Armenia can only be paralleled by the Bulgaihn atvocitles. The incidents in e.ush aro almost identical, [&'id bear undeniable testimony to the methods of theOttomaa Government. Tbeir only missionary ia th 9 Bword. It ia now t>s it was with Kaled the Lion in the days of Muhocnit, "Believe cr die." The Armenians are In precisely the eatae position aa the Bulgarians were !n 1876, when TVTr Gladstone published hia famons "Bulgarian Horrors" and "Lessons In Massacre." The ima ediafce effect of thesa effusions was to excite ar d inflame the Russian mind in favor of thafr craelly persecuted brother. Slava in Bulgaria. This I was followed by the armed interposition of Russi* and the Ruaao-Turkiah war. Tha chief rtsulis of that graat infernat'ona 1 . conflict were that downtrodden Bulgaria became crystallised into a power Ins'.iuct'withvigorous national life, and the practical ditappearancj of the active control of Turkey in Europe. It would have been a great deal better for Bulgaria Bni Roumelia had the change been brought about fiooner. Turkey has all

along been a living anaohronism amongst Western Governments. Shi stands on the boundary line between the iSast and th 3 West), and does nob completely harmonise with either. Were it not foe the commanding position of Constantinople, controlling th 9 gateway between thd Black Sea and the Mediterranean, destined by Nature aa a Beat of Empire, fie 11 sick man ' of Turkey would not have found ao many frienda. The very root and origin of all this international, sympathy with a natloT whoao civilisation Is | oniy skin deap, is JBalonny of Russia. AH the greab Wearera nabions ehrink from armed interventions of auy kind, on behalf of the outraged and cruelly persecuted Bulgarians. Bat after Russia orosaed the Danube and fou«ht her way to the Bosphorus, England, Austria, and Germany were ab once galvanised luto Ufa. With no mora animation than ao many corpßaa before that* the cry of "The Extern Qaeation " was at once raised, and a most extraordinary international resurrection took place. The l(us*ia » armies came to a dead halt at the San Sfcefano camp, and no doubt looked longingly aoroes at Stamboul, the g ory of many an age, and the Mecca of every good Ruaaian who balleved in the policy of Ps-.tsr fcha Great. The Treaty of Borlln followed, by which Russia's advance was check. d, and she undertook to return with her 1 glona back across the Danube, Austria obtained cfvil and military control of Bosnia and Herzagovina, England leased tha Island Cyprus at an extravagant rental — and for what ? — nothing certainly of the slightest intrinsic value. As if that was no*-, a bad enough bargain, she also undertook to sac that peaca reigned in Anato'ia and that justice was dispensed, neither of wkich ha 3 Co3t the British Government a thought or a penny j from that dsy to. this. Theae were the vaunted arrangements which the great Prophet of Jingoism designated with the boastful title of " Peace with honor !" Armenia ia evidently becoming anothar Bulgaria, and another .Gladstone is wanted to arouse the public opinion and sympathies of the Western nations, and a conjoin remonstrance of their respective Governments, coupled with the Intimation that If the Sublime Porte can not deal with Christian subjects in some way more in accordance with the instincts and feeling* of ordinary humanity, the rule of the Turk must pan away and ba superseded by an administration that will show more respect for human life and the rightB of property. It is a dbgraoe to the civilization of the age that euch a diabolical state of affairs as is now reported from Arraania should be allowed to continue. One thing ia qalte certain. If Russia had not been intimidated by the Great Powers acting conjointly she would to-day be controlling Turkey in Asia, and thare wonld not have been such heartrending scenes to record. She would have done for the Turkish Empire what she has done for Turkeßtan. Where merchants and travellers crnld not travel in safe'y a.few years ago, they may now traverse the wild wastes in all parts of the country with perfect pafety. The attempt to implicate the British Consul in the district of Van in any responsibility for the people refusing to pay the taxe>, and thus evoking extreme action on the pirt of the Turkish Regulars may be taken for whafc it is worth, whioh is very little as a factor in the solution of the problem aa to why an Ottoman Government cannot continue to rale people of a different faith without resort to snch appalling outrages and dreadful atrocities as are chronicied in the cable news we publish to-day. The tima hes arrived when the great nations of Europe Bhonld intervene and by common consent disPOS3OBS the chronic ** Sick Man" of the control of Const sntlnopl?, and appoint come nation as custodian of that great and natural "seat of empire. It !s a huge ecandd -.hat civilised and powerful nations should hava to stand by apathe'.ioally and close their eyes to barbarities of the ra.iat revolting kind. It is high tfma that they tired of the fa'alistio and utterly unimprovable " Sick Man" of Europe. Tt ia time that he shoul i be told, to go — and not to " aland upon the order of Ills going," but to go at once.